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Taxpayer-Financed Stadiums Bring "Municipal Woes," says NY Times
Response to posts #4&5: Yessir Gunny, at this point I believe that all the nominations I made should be considered "winners". There will most certainly be more nominees, like Don made, if people really think about it. It gets harder every year to believe that very many people really think about who Christmas really honors and what He tried to teach us to keep us from destroying ourselves. I have not only become nonpartisan politically, but also with respect to religion as long as the GOP version of the Holy Bible is preached by cardinals like Limbaugh, Cheney et al. As far as a ballot is concerned, that will take some creativity to devise. Maybe The Reader can come up with one we can all respect.— December 26, 2009 12:12 p.m.
Taxpayer-Financed Stadiums Bring "Municipal Woes," says NY Times
So just when we were in the middle of celebrating the birth of Jesus, along comes Don Bauder in his sleigh delivering the latest edition of the NYT. Merry Christmas to you too Don. So now that you have brought up reality checks, and considering what day this is, let’s inagurate a list of candidates for a new “Judas Award”: Suggestions for the first 21st Century Decadal “Judas Award” o Dick Cheney and his Bush puppet for betraying the U.S. Military and American Democracy o GOP members of Congress and the Supreme Court who enabled the Cheney-Bush betrayals o San Diego Mayors who perpetrated the Decline and Fall of America’s Finest City, creating Enron by the Sea o San Diego Republican Party leaders and San Diego U-T Editors who enabled the betrayals of all San Diego families by creating puppet Mayors What’s your list Don?— December 25, 2009 11:28 a.m.
Mayor Sanders’s committees are almost wholly made up of downtown boosters
Re: “Lobbyists Rule” and your Response #24 to your “The Mayor and the Dirty-Money Guy” Story: “If corruption suddenly disappears in San Diego, I promise to shift my focus elsewhere.” It looks like you’ll have to live to at least 100 Don because “Lobbyists Rule” documents, with pix and bullets the latest Top Dozen San Diego Bloodsuckers, registered lobbyists and long-term corporate welfare mendicants who control Mayor Sanders. By coincidence, the new 12/17/09 "Peninsula Beacon" has a headline story about the consequences of “Lobbyists Rule”: “City budget noose is ready to tighten – Libraries, public safety set to take hits”. Two of the hits against public safety include “Implement rolling ‘brown outs’ by reducing eight engines from fire stations” and “Reduction of 41 police department civilian positions”. This means that more and more innocent San Diegans will die and/or be grievously injured because of Sander’s and his Bloodsuckers who are the root cause of increasingly out of control firestorms, crime, poverty, etc. P.S. It sure would have helped if UCSD Professor Erie had a sense of urgency and published his book this year as originally planned, because the longer it takes the more crashing and burning Sander’s Bloodsuckers will create for all San Diegans.— December 18, 2009 1:11 p.m.
Mayor Sanders and Jeffry Wetzel
Thanks for another year of excellent investigative reporting Don. Your many exposures of corruption in San Diego keep proving what a senior FBI agent said last week, Corruption threatens "soul and fabric" of U.S. “Corruption, whether in the form of crooked officials, financial fraudsters or even philandering sports stars, is tearing at the fabric of U.S. society and is the country's No. 1 criminal threat” As this column and the San Diego economy prove this year, Mayor Sanders, scandal-ridden groups who control him, the San Diego Republican Party, etc. are destroying the soul and fabric of San Diego. Keep up the great work next year Don, all we can do is hope that San Diegans will read your columns, wake up soon and toss all corrupt local, state and federal republican politicians and judges out of office.— December 18, 2009 5:05 a.m.
Mayor Sanders and Jeffry Wetzel
Response to post #12: I agree 100% That's why I specifically said "educational and religious institutions" to keep them separate and distinct, unlike radical religious right wing republicans who combine these two institutions and include them in their political institution. Nevertheless, all religions have failed the tests of morality, integrity, ethics and the 10 Commandments proven by the hideously unacceptable state of the world today that proves all religions have failed.— December 17, 2009 12:57 p.m.
Mayor Sanders and Jeffry Wetzel
Response to post #10: You got that right Don, and you know the most hideous irony will happen next year now that the democrats have allowed themselves to be seen as failing to negate republican acts of treason at federal, state and local levels by losing whatever commanding majorities they may have. Republicans sure know how to screw the poor, democracy, democrats and America. And We The People still don't understand that ALL GOP politicians and judges are traitors against American Democracy and the U.S. Military, making all of bin Laden's nightmares for America come true. That's because of the total failures of our educational and religious institutions to teach us to read, think and live by the 10 Commandments.— December 17, 2009 11:34 a.m.
Mayor Sanders and Jeffry Wetzel
Don, I don't know if anyone may have noticed, but I must admit that my outrage at Republican acts of treason against the U.S. Military and political corruption with the health insurance industry is going ballistic. I still remember being a dedicated "I Like Ike" Young Republican, but ever since Nixon the party has gone straight to Hell. Ike was definitely the last of the Great republicans with Honor and Integrity, then Nixon-Agnew through Cheney-Bush destroyed that era completely. If our Founders could have known that the GOP would destroy the American Democracy they created they wouldn't have bothered risking their lives to create American Democracy in the first place.— December 16, 2009 1:11 p.m.
Natural History Museum Bonds Lowered to Junk Status
Response to post #30: Rachel Maddow also reamed him a new one, including exposing Liebergeld's wife for getting millions for "serving" the health insurance industries best interests. His new name should be Genocide Joe Liebergeld for his sending millions of poor to their premature deaths for generations to come because they can't afford insurance from companies who have to pay off the Liebergeld Family Corruption Institute. What the hell is this world coming too!— December 16, 2009 12:43 p.m.
Natural History Museum Bonds Lowered to Junk Status
P.S. to post #24: Speaking of GOP Traitors, the latest deranged role model is Joe Lieberman who is republican in every way except he lies about that also. By awesome coincidence, Krugman's Opinion this morning refers to him as "Liebergeld" - Priceless. Sure glad Krugman confirmed what I have been thinking.— December 15, 2009 2:04 p.m.
Natural History Museum Bonds Lowered to Junk Status
Response to post #24: You couldn't have made a better recommendation than for looking after our Heroes and Patriots who risked everything to protect America. Unfortunately, the Cheney-Bush-GOP era of betrayals of veterans, and all Americans except their aristocrat class owners that is, still continue in congress today. The Tories we kicked out during the Revolution have returned as GOP Traitors in Washington today.— December 15, 2009 12:46 p.m.